Ok everyone!!!! I just became a Mary Kay consultant and im looking for customers, referrals and people who want to host parties!!!! please please please let me know if you or anyone you know wants to help me out. I am totally willing to travel and i have a full inventory so you wouldnt have to wait for your product. Even if you can only give me the name and number of someone you know who MIGHT be interested, that would be perfect! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!! and i hope to hear from you soon!!!!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

So this WAS my pretty glass top coffee table...until Dan decided that it would be a good idea to sit on it...good bye pretty table. But that's ok, we've been looking for a reason to get a new one with more forgiving corners on it since Brooklyn is a lot more mobile now, so Dan said he'd get me one for my birthday!!!!!

Bet you cant guess what Brooklyn's doing....

So it's a little blurry but still so cute. Brooklyn LOVES her Daddy and she tends to cling to him every chance she gets. this is her way of begging Dan to pick her up. Yes she can stand all by herself.

soooo i still cant figure out how to rotate these pictures but it's still cute. This is Grampy Van marveling at his ability to put Brooklyn to sleep. He was so proud! and rightfully so!!!!

Brooklyn getting ready for a car ride. She's got her 2 "must have" favorite toys with her, the infant tylanol to chew on and her trusty idaho potato friend.

Me, Dan and Uncle Kory took Brooklyn to the Harley Davidson store and she ended up finding a bike of her own and some new threads to to match Uncle Kory. She fit right in!

Ok everyone!!!! I just became a Mary Kay consultant and im looking for customers, referrals and people who want to host parties!!!! please please please let me know if you or anyone you know wants to help me out. I am totally willing to travel and i have a full inventory so you wouldnt have to wait for your product. Even if you can only give me the name and number of someone you know who MIGHT be interested, that would be perfect! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!! and i hope to hear from you soon!!!!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Auntie Mikel (Mikel Barfuss) gave Brooky this outfit when she was first born. It's a 0-3 months so it's been HUGE on her all up until now...she's almost 5 months old. SO CUTE!!!

This is our little Brooky sleeping in her snowsuit after her first 11 mile run in the cold weather. actually Daddy Dan was the only one who RAN, but me and Brooky walked around the track with the stroller. FUN FUN!!!!

So I couldn't figure out how to rotate this picture but you get the idea. Dan thought it was important that she learned how to play video games at an early age. And judging by her face, she agrees.

My tiny little woodland elf.

I laid Brooklyn on our bed so I could change my clothes and when I went to pick her up again she had adjusted into her "I'm just gonna sit and relax while I wait on mom" position. Yes, she put herself into this position, it was not staged.

Yes, these are tiny toe nails and yes, they are painted bright red. Brooklyn LOVES being a girl.

So I'm very new at this whole blogging thing and quite frankly I think it's HARD! but I've been strongly encouraged, on many different accounts and by multiple people, to get one so here it is... My Blog. I have every intention of updating it at least once a week but, unfortunately, i can't promise anything. With that said, I would like to give everyone the updates all up until now and at least a weeks head start on my life, just in case I forget to post next week.

On February 6 of this year, at 5:41 p.m. it will have been exactly three months ago that me and Dan had a tiny baby girl named Brooklyn Emery Scherbel. 6 lbs, 2 oz. 19 1/2 in. long and totally beautiful. She is the second love of our lives and she really is perfect. Heavenly Father was totally showing off when he made her. For Brooklyn's 3 month birthday she and I are going to get her pictures taken and she is so excited, those I will definitely post on here. I also took the liberty to give her her first pedicure last tuesday, as she was taking a nap in her swing, she has beautiful red toenails now and as soon as I figure out how to post pictures on this thing I will show everyone those as well.

I found a new friend, her name is Kim and she has conveniently just finished cosmetology school and her and her husband live in the same condominiums that we do. She charges $10 a cut and thats just fantastic for me, since I stopped working and we are on a super strict budget. but don't worry I like her for lots of other reasons too!

Dan (a.k.a superman) has lost 18 lbs. in 3 weeks. he is training for another marathon in may and a triathlon in june, yes that's what I said, and marathon AND a triathlon. He has almost officially decided on a profession in kinesiology and then going on to the physical therapy/ sports medicine side of it. But so far in the year and a 1/2 that we've been married he's considered, doctor, math teacher, engineer, paramedic, recreational therapy, and a few more. OH if we could all have TOO many talents to choose from.